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Released: February 1981


Rating: 4.478 (average of 15 ratings)


Genre: experimental rock/ ambient


Quotable: --


Album Tracks:

  1. America Is Waiting
  2. Mea Culpa
  3. Regiment
  4. Help Me Somebody
  5. The Jezebel Spirit
  6. Very, Very Hungry
  7. Moonlight in Glory
  8. The Carrier
  9. A Secret Life
  10. Come with Us
  11. Mountain of Needles


Sales:

sales in U.S. only --
sales in U.K. only - estimated --
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated --


Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 44
peak on U.K. album chart 29


Singles/Hit Songs:

  • none


Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more.


My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brian Eno/ David Byrne
Review:
“A pioneering work for countless styles connected to electronics, ambience, and Third World music, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts expands on the fourth-world concepts of Hassell/Eno work with a whirlwind 45 minutes of worldbeat/funk-rock (with the combined talents of several percussionists and bassists, including Bill Laswell, Tim Wright, David van Tieghem, and Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz) that’s also heavy on the samples – from radio talk-show hosts, Lebanese mountain singers, preachers, exorcism ceremonies, Muslim chanting, and Egyptian pop, among others” (Bush).

“It’s also light years away from the respectful, preservationist angles of previous generations’ field recorders and folk song gatherers. The songs on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts present myriad elements from around the world in the same jumbled stew, without regard for race, creed, or color. As such, it’s a tremendously prescient record for the future development of music during the 1980s and '90s” (Bush).


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Last updated May 3, 2008.